“I'd spent endless nights wishing things had been different - wishing that ours had been a fairy-tale story. But, it wasn't. It couldn't be.”
“This true difference in me now: I had these experiances, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”
“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”
“I'd been right from the start—soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.”
“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
“I never met anyone who gets up out of their bed after a night on the town and says, 'Oh I wish I'd had another drink last night. That would have been a great idea”